when you rise along with thieves...

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Now, he explains in this next shloka that this elevated yogi does not get bondage, does not get bounded, entangled by these three states, jagrat [waking], svapna [dreaming] and sushupti [deep sleep].

gunadispandanishyandah samanyaspandasamshrayat /
labdhatmalabhah satatam syurjnasyaparipanthinah //19

Jnasya means that yogi who is absolutely elevated–jnasya. Who has known in real sense, the state of Lord Shiva, he is jnasya. Jnasya means fully elevated yogi. For him, gunadi spanda nishyandah all these cycles of gunas, all these cycles of organs; the activity of organs, all organs; organs of action and organs of knowledge . . .*
Organs of action are five and organs of knowledge are also five: shabda, sparsha, rupa, rasa and gandha is organs of . . .
ERNIE: Action?
SWAMIJI: . . . knowledge. And vak, pani, pada, payu, and upastha, is organs of action. Vak means speech, speaking; pani is handing, holding; pada is walking; payu is excretion of mala, and upastha is sexual [organ] . . . and i.e. five acts of kriya, action.
*. . . that elevated soul takes hold of samanya spanda in that. There are two sections of spandas explained in this spanda shastra [on] movement. One spanda is vishesha spanda, and another spanda is samanya spanda. Vishesha spanda is distinctive movement. Distinctive movement is found in daily activity of life, distinctive movement. Going here and there, talking, eating, sleeping, joking, laughing, going to movies. All these activities are distinctive. They are separate from each other. Distinctive means they are separated from each other.
ERNIE: Beginning and end?
SWAMIJI: Not, beginning and end. They are separated. One movement of talking is different from the movement of walking. Movement of walking is different from movement of enjoying, movement of playing, all this; they are different from each other. In this you find spanda. Spanda is existing there but, that spanda is existing in vishesha bhava. Vishesha bhava is distinctive, in distinctive manner.
And there is another spanda, that is samanya spanda, universal spanda. That is samanya spanda. Samanya spanda is found everywhere. Just unchangeable and just in one formation. Samanya spanda is one. Vishesha spandas are many, hundreds, thousands.
But that elevated soul takes hold of that samanya spanda, not vishesha spanda. In the activity of vishesha spanda, he takes hold of samanya spanda. So he is fine. He does not go down. He is not trodden down from the kingdom of God consciousness. His kingdom of God consciousness is still prevailing there, in vishesha spanda also.
So while acting, that is what is called karma yoga, yoga in action. Yoga in inaction, that is jnana yoga. When you don’t act, you remain in samadhi, meditating, all-round meditating; that is inactive yoga. In that inactive yoga there is possibility of coming down from that state. But in active yoga, when you rise along with thieves, who will steal your property? You are with thieves! You are rising along with your thieves! Who would snatch all your good property from you, if you deal with, along with thieves also? Thieves . . . what are thieves?
Temptations of the world . . . temptations of the world. There are so many temptations in the world; those snatch away the treasure of God consciousness from you. You lose that treasure of God consciousness by those thieves. But [when] you make friendship with thieves, when you make friendship, when you remain in action of the world . . . when you remain in action of the world, you are in friendly term with thieves also. What they can snatch from you? They will never snatch from you.
ERNIE: So, for jnana yogi they are thieves. And for . . .
SWAMIJI: Karma yogi, they are not thieves. They are friends, no problem.
JOHN: So jnana yogi is inactive yoga.
SWAMIJI: Inactive, yes.
JOHN: So karma is much higher than jnana yoga?
SWAMIJI: Of course. Karma is kriya shakti is best.
JOACHIM: Kriya shakti?
SWAMIJI: Kriya shakti, yes. Jnana shakti is lower, and iccha shakti is lowest. But in Vedanta, you will find iccha shakti highest, jnana shakti a bit lower, [and] kriya shakti wretched.
They call kriya shakti, bhrama, illusion. But this is not illusion for us. For Shaivites, kriya shakti is just real element to rise.
So, for those elevated souls, these, gunadi spanda nishyandah, these class of organs of senses, they become labdhatmalabhah, they just push him in the center of God consciousness. Who? Organs of action [and] organs of knowledge. Organs of action and organs of knowledge just push you inside God consciousness. Whom? Those elevated yogis. It is not found in those who are not elevated. They are kicked by these senses, down.
And, this is the way, jnasya aparipanthinah, for elevated soul, they become friends, not enemies. For those who are not elevated, they are enemies for them.

(source: Spanda Karika, Swami Lakshmanjoo, Audio archives of the Universal Shaiva Fellowship
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